Introduction：The Animal Breeding and Ecology Research Center (ABERC) carries out applied and fundamental research with special economic animals (turtles, crocodiles, snakes, giant salamander and frogs etc), including industrial farming, germplasm resources, genetics and breeding, medicine value, classification, ecology and conservation biology, invasion biology. In recent years, the ABERC has conducted more than 30 major scientific research projects, including some projects of international foundation, projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, projects of National Key R&D Program of China, projects of Scientific and Technological Program of Guangdong Province. Moreover, the ABERC has published over 50 papers in international/national academic journals, such as “Current Biology”, “Science of the Total Environment”, “Amphibia-Reptilia”, “Journal of parasitology” and “Oryx”. At present, the ABERC won 8 national invention patents, and 4 provincial and ministerial level scientific and technological awards.

Key projects undertaken by the ABERC ：
1. Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31471966): Study on the taxonomy and molecular phylogeography of the genus Platysternon in Asia.
2. Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31401053): Epigenetic regulation of sex determination in the Chinese Soft-shelled Turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis.
3. Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31071935): Study of the mating system and its formation mechanism of the endangered species Platysternon megacephalum.
4. Project of National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFC1201100): Study of the ecological hazard assessment of main invasive organisms and ecological remediation technology (Subproject: regarding Trachemys scripta elegans).
5. Projects of Scientific and Technological Program of Guangzhou, China (No.2011J2200025): Study on the cultivation and key techniques of ecological farming of the new variety of turtles, Platysternon megacephalum.